At first
glance the search facility is difficult to find - you cannot search
from the main page, but have to click the "search
winsite".

Provides user feedback:

You can
vote for a product and submit a review.

Rating system:

based on
user votes. What is a little unusual is that they don't publish a
rating until at least 5 people have voted.

Accepts PAD files:

The site
says it does, but at the time of reviewing (March 2005) a PAD
submission wasn't obvious.

A related point is that the site appears to store copies of all
software submitted to it, so even if an author makes an update to
their software and updates their PAD file accordingly, WinSite will
not pick the change up.

Gives download figures:

No link back needed:

Software
authors do not need to provide a link back to the site from their
own web site.